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Ask HN: HN for non-techies?

9 points by itry ↗ HN
What do you guys consider the most "non-geek" site that has the same or a similar format to HN?

I constantly rave about HN to my friends, but nobody is interested in the contents here. Wouldnt this format also work for other news?

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jstanley
Isn't reddit basically what you're thinking about?
itry
Reddit is MUCH too geeky for my non-techie friends. Also it doesnt look civilized like HN. It looks like one big confusing mess of untrustworthy chaos. And it doesnt look intelligent. My friends are not interested in cat photos and celebrity gossip.
merqumab
Unsubscribe from the default subreddits and you'll find more intelligent discourse.
jaebrown
I believe you may to want to state the subject matter that you would like to get your friends engaged with. If it's stuff like SEO, social media, CPC and business, then try inbound.org. Other then that a sub-reddit around specific content may be your only shot. There are sub-reddits for just about everything. Once you create an account and choose your sub-reddits, that is all you see.